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SUPERMOON

John — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:50:28 +0000

SUPER MOON!: The moon at the closest point in its orbit of earth.

This, from NASA’s site:

“The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects.”

No one knows why the moon looks larger near the horizon line? Wow, people get on it!

Full disclosure: NYC was overcast the night of the super moon so I took this shot the 4th of May 2012… it is an almost but not quite super moon.

ps Even the word “lunacy,” meaning “insanity,” comes from the Latin word for “Moon.”

Get the Weekend Started Right XIV

John — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:36:06 +0000

Kindness – Gee Up

Happy Friday the 13th

John — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:09:43 +0000

Mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl from The British Museum.

What’s Does a 40-Year-Old Photo Sitting on the Surface of the Moon Look Like Now?

John — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:10:31 +0000

I wonder what the family photo that astronaut Charlie Duke left on the surface of the moon during Apollo 16 in April 1972 looks like now?
It was left in low gravity, no wind, left in plastic… Is it sun bleached white paper?

Or is it perfectly preserved? This is a before and after series I’d like to see.

NASA has an awesome image site about the Apollo mission at www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html

You can easily find photos that looks like this:

If you have a lot of spare time you could easily spend it in an internet wormhole looking at moon landing conspiracy sites.

Get the Weekend Started Right XIII

John — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:11:58 +0000

Steve Bent “I’m going to Spain”

via Art Decade

John — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:54:43 +0000

Here’s a new pic of the one and only Sunny Ozell that I shot for Castor & Pollux’s Loving blog. She’s funny, got killer style and has a voice that’s easy like Sunday morning.

And just for good measure, Bobby Hebb’s Sunny:

2011 SPD Photo Awards

John — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:30:36 +0000

These Photo Editors are on the list of medal finalists for the Society of Publication Designer’s 47th Annual Awards. I was going to write “start sending your promo cards now.” … but I’ll make this a note to self: “make a promo card AND send it to these fine folks.” (The number following the name is the amount of nominations.)

Kira Pollack 12
Kathy Ryan 12
Jody Quon 9
Dora Somosi 5
Caroline Wolff 5
Whitney Johnson 4
Casey Tierney 4
Kurt Mutchler 3
Brenda Milis 2
Jennifer Miller 2
Sarah Rozen 2
Claudia Stefezius 2
David Carthas 1
Annie Chia 1
Maggie Brett Kennedy 1
Kathleen Klech 1
Francesca Morosini 1
Madeleine Penny 1
Judith Puckett-Rinella 1
Alexandra Pollack 1
Corriette Schoenaerts 1
Shelbie Vermette 1
Zana Woods 1

Pop The Champagne

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:06:29 +0000

I’ve been on a really nice jag work-wise and I am happy to report that I made
it into The New York Times Magazine! I took the photos to accompany
Mark Bittman’s column about the East Village Japanese restaurant Kajitsu. Somewhere, somehow the photo gods smiled on me… Evidence below:

My wife has twice tried to get into the restaurant for dinner and it looks like we’re going to have to wait even longer as Chef Masato Nishihara’s food was both insanely delicious, beautifully prepared and, there’s no denying, that’s a very nice press clipping.

A very grateful thank you goes out to Photo Editor Luise Stauss (whom I met through Natasha Lunn)… in my book they drink free!

Hell Yes Being Busy Feels Good

John — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:34 +0000

I’ve been surgically attached to my laptop since September and those long long days are coming to an end (in the sense that I’m finishing up some projects, not in the I should try this kind of way). For the first time since I decided to quit my job as Associate Art Director at American PHOTO Magazine to become a photographer in 2008 I have been Capital B Busy… Like weeks and weeks of 14 hour days busy. I know it’s been a while cause my late night drink of choice has changed from Campari (summer) to Vodka (fall) to Bourbon (winter) … yes, sadly I am marking time with alcohol…. It’s like those prison movies where they scratch a mark into the wall except I’m drawing bottles. BUT… there is a stack of food photography prints sitting next to me. Thank God I didn’t get fat… I skipped dinner for weeks.

All of which is to say: Dear Reader (that would be my wife, sometimes my sister, and maybe a few people with desk jobs that have Google Reader tattoos, and God willing a few Photo Editors), I apologize. But here is a little sunshine in the form of a recent picture I took of Alexis Rothenberg. She runs Worthwhisland. You, my friend, can actually buy a Ross Bleckner. It’s not everyday someone says that to you. Right?

Some people are awesome and Helena Christensen is one of them.

John — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:18:14 +0000

I can now cross SUPERMODEL off my photos-to-take list!
Want more details: This was easy, I’m lucky, she’s awesome.

You can read an interview on LOVING and learn about her secret blog.
She is an excellent photographer: Listen to her speak and see some of her work for Oxfam. Thank you Helena!